Introduction: Gender and Women’s History
Gill Perry, Anne Laurence, Joan Bellamy
Chapter 1: Musing On Muses: Representing The Actress as ‘Artist’ in British Art of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Gill Perry
Chapter 2: Distant Prospects and Smaller Circles: Questions of Authority in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writings
Madeline Thompson
Chapter 3: Scholarship and Sensibility: Anna Jameson and Sydney Morgan in Siren Land
Chloe Chard
Chapter 4: Mary Shelley as Editor of the Poems of Percy Shelley
Richard Allen
Chapter 5: Women and Education in Nineteenth Century England
Rosemary O’Day
Chapter 6:Mary Cowden Clarke’s Labours of Love
Cicely Palser Havely
Chapter 7: Women Historians and Documentary Research: Lucy Aikin, Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green, and Lucy Toulmin Smith
Anne Laurence
Chapter 8:Margaret Oliphant, “Mightier than the mightiest of her sex.”
Joan Bellamy
Chapter 9: ‘Hints on Household Taste’ and ‘The Art of Decoration’: Authors, Their Audience and Gender in Interior Design
Colin Cunningham
Chapter 10: Women, Translation and Empowerment
Lorna Hardwick
Chapter 11: ‘I Love My Sex’: Two Late-Victorian Pulpit Women
Susan Mumm
Postscript
Bibliography
Biographies
Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplines. Women discussed include authors (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson) actresses ( Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson) critics ( Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke) historians (Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith) as well as the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists and translators. Makes a significant and original contribution to the development of gender studies by extending the frontiers of existing knowledge and research.
Les mer
This volume brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900. It looks at women working outside conventional canons, and are shown how they negotiated relationships with canonical forms of artistic production.
Les mer
Les mer
Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplines. Women discussed include authors (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson) actresses ( Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson) critics ( Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke) historians (Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith) as well as the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists and translators. Makes a significant and original contribution to the development of gender studies by extending the frontiers of existing knowledge and research.
Les mer
ISBN
9780719057205
Publisert
2001-02-01
Utgiver
Manchester University Press; Manchester University Press
Vekt
376 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264